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I Wrote a Letter​(​LP)

by Dustin Saucier & The Sad Bastards

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1.
I'm Sure 04:38
I wrote a letter to my best intentions Asked them, 'where have you gone since the last mention of love?' And I'm holding out for another evening where the sun wouldn't set on a love so weak and I know what you see Cause theres time for forgiveness, there's always a chance That I haven't given up on this romantic view of the world Where you would come running back into my arms Hold me and tell me how lovely we are as one I wrote a letter to all of my friends Told them I would like to get in touch with them again But hold on a second, I lost everything In a life that I lead without any regard for anyone Theres nothing here for me to give to you I just want to be alone for a second now But you would come in and take me by surprise Theres nothing left; no fire in your eyes and I'm sure
2.
Well I see a fire burning down the hall Do I want to go, or should I run from it all? And I think about all the ones that I love and come to decide push or shove That I'll stay where I am, cause Id rather burn alive than to sacrifice a minute of my time To the ones I call my "family" and my "friends" Well I know its too long, but its too close to an end I woke up from another nightmare and told myself 'I gotta get the hell outta here' So I took a plane to a foreign land, and I tried my best at a foreign romance But that girl dont know a thing about what I said because there are barriers that must be kept So i went back home and I sulked to myself and I wondered if there was anyone else who felt the way that i felt about love or the fleeting feeling of nothing that filled my veins So I locked myself in my room again and prayed for a means to an end And I looked up to the sky and I said "Oh please God, if you're listening, wont you save me from what I have become? A soulless mother fucker who doesnt know his head from his ass?" And I cant repeat what he said, but I knew it soon that I'd end up dead Cause theres no time like the present time And theres no time to get it right (x2)
3.
Caught on his side, how the wounded lion catches light Sickening health, seems like he is giving up fight Vacant and bare, softened breaths, a rouse coming back Who wouldve thought his first bite would become his last? Foregone explanations, common incantations Jealous misconceptions, all of these life lessons I am a lion who's innocently lost his pride Left naked and bare, wounded and barely alive Sworn to avenge the lioness I lost tonight Instead sit and stare as I watch this life pass me by For these foregone explanations, common incantations of jealous misconceptions, all of these life lessons I want to break the rules, like all the lions do Wake me from sleep and let me see what its like to be free
4.
The meadows of this sacred place have stories saved for better days And the beauty of the grass trampled by your feet would sustain And Im holding out my heart, just to watch it fall apart Like an old carousel horse suspended in the air, I wait. Like a child who's lost his way back to school on a rainy day I would hold the qualities I lack, fall apart; just break But I dont wanna feel this way, so morose and full of disdain Count my blessings and return to sleep in a peculiar haze Wont you come with me my love? Wont you come with me tonight?
5.
Folly in the open carousel of summers condescending serendipitous reviews of a soft song You were singing to the dead; spider legs in the web that you were spinning Soon the glory of our days would be done She was keeping calm and cool, carried on; can't conject certain feelings old or fairly new in play So I watch with steady eyes as the lies, like kaleidoscoping ceilings juxtapose what shouldve been with what was done and we sing la, da da da da da da, la da da (it hurts less to sing along) la da da da da da da la da daaaaa Soon the time would finally come when youd make off giving me an inkling of affection that you knew I starved for But better than just let myself fall prey to the compromising dealings I could only shake you off for so long Yeah you talk, ya you talk talk talk Youll ruin yourself like that But you still talk, why do you talk? And when they talk, when they talk talk talk does it complicate the feeling yet? But you still talk, you still talk When the resurrection came, until that day, you kept yourself in hiding to avoid all the work it would take but when our mouths they finally met; my nicotine and your lip gloss careening, I feared for the shitty thoughts id think next But it was all just a game that youd play to test out your feelings and I was just a catalyst And when you were said and done I would be one who was without a feeling and theres nothing that I miss
6.
another moment I'll see exactly what you've done to me and all of your things somehow find their way to me like notes strung about your floor and all of the times I tried to give you the love i had but there was something missing another cold frosted morn I'd wake without that comfortable warmth of you close to my side without you it feels like half a life has been taken away from me cause nothings the same; no I don't sleep I just wait for you to come back, I hope its soon, cause nights aren't the same without you I'm waiting for this to begin and you're begging for this to end I'm waiting for this to begin and you're waiting for this to end
7.
Come and go as you please, I have no means to hold you from your release and though I can't afford the means to keep you by my sides well god damn i will try for you. On a cold August morn, we would find ourselves caught in, in a lovers scorn and theres nothing left to do, so we take apart the memories we had glued together for our lives but that wouldn't do Is there something here worth waiting for? Is there nothing here worth talking for? Cause I thought this was worth fighting for but I dont know. I remember those days, you would come over and we would sit and gaze as the leaves fell from the trees; no, nothing felt so good to me nothing felt so good to me And I wanna think about all the great things that we'd talk about cause theres nothing better than the feeling of your breath on my neck or the way we'd touch and make me forget everything going wrong in my life Is there something here worth waiting for? x2 Never thought I was worth waiting for but I know that you're worth fighting for Cause theres nothing here worth living for If our love is not worth fighting for No, theres something here worth waiting for
8.
Wounded Bird 03:24
When I was born I couldn't see the deluge of a tragedy Constant barrage of fuckery the world had blindly dealt to me So I would grow to finally be a cynic with good company And you would watch as all the leaves changed their colors here for me In time it took to be exposed, a growing doubt that no one knows took over and finally showed a boy who couldnt hold his own Alone at start, till i could find someone who would stick behind My thoughts and keep me in their eyes, but who knew the big surprise And who would know a heart like this could be easily dismissed? A common soul, a subtlety, a wounded bird whose wings weren't free So i would try to fix it all and eventually I'd fall But who would know I'd fall so soon? Who would know I'd fall for you? Now I lie here in this bed, silently praying for my death In lieu of certain events, the feeling of you circumvents those feelings of lonliness of which your hands would caress please end this now When I was born, I chose to see the world that I wanted to see but now I know the world is mean and there is nothing left for me Why do I choose to persist on, well maybe I think theres a song left in my heart to sing along
9.
Thoughtful 04:46
Sometimes it feels like you have to sell your soul to make it in this town and sometimes it seems like you cant be yourself around anyone else But I like me I like me And we would spend most of our time on your porch talking away the night You would worry about anything and everything But I like you There was a feeling that I could not escape One of those things that you could not reciprocate But I know you, you want to but you dont know how to. I know you I like you
10.
Taken away for a second, all of these simple discretions I know that I'm pressed for time at best, so I'll say this and I'll go There was a way in the moment a simple wave that came and went But theres nothing left in here so I guess I'll try my best So raise, raise your glass to a love best left in the past And cheers to the sun that set long before we were ever done true you were quite distracting, got in the way of what I could do without; this simple thing I found in without you So raise, raise your glass to a love thats best left in the past and cheers to the sun that set long before we were ever done, we're never done but hold your head high, and i promise you this was more than just a passing by and soon you will see exactly what you've done to me So raise your glass to a love thats best left in the past and cheers to the sun, that set long before we were ever done, we're never done Hold your head high, and i promise you all this is not the last time You will see everything that you meant to me.

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Recorded May - September 2012 at the York residence

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released September 28, 2012

Jon York - Producer, lap steel, electric guitars, bass, awesomeness
Geoff Williams - Drums, aux. percussion, beards
Elizabeth Taillon - Backing vox on "Like Lions Do", bringing the spook.

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Dustin Saucier & The Sad Bastards Portland, Maine

Dustin is joined by his good friends to create rock that may be sad, but never maudlin. Influenced by all genres of the musical world, Dustin and The Sad Bastards have put out a full length and an EP, of which the EP was mentioned by Portland Phoenix as one of the best of 2013. ... more

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